I have been lurking Wilders since finishing school in summer of 2009; however, I have never had anything to offer so I did not register with the forum. Recently I have noticed how many of the newspapers and other periodicals I read tie into discussions on the forum. I decided today that I should just go ahead and start posting them for people here to take a look at.

This article concerns the threat of "backdoors" in Chinese made communications equipment as the American defense establishment sees it.

The newspaper is The Washington Post. It is one of the best of the American newspapers in part because it has the most contacts in Washington D.C. The newspaper is generally considered "liberal" in the American sense of the word.

Late last year, as AT&T was preparing to buy hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment for its next-generation phone system, one of its senior executives received a call from the National Security Agency.
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The subject was AT&T's desire to give a burgeoning Chinese telecommunications firm a contract to supply some of the equipment. The message from the NSA - the nation's electronic spying agency - was simple: If AT&T wanted to continue its lucrative business with the U.S. government, it had better select a supplier other than Huawei, said several people with knowledge of the call. In February, AT&T announced that it would buy the equipment it needed from Swedish-owned Ericsson and Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent.

The NSA called AT&T because of fears that China's intelligence agencies could insert digital trapdoors into Huawei's technology that would serve as secret listening posts in the U.S. communications network, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to maintain their relationship with the companies. Huawei, the NSA and AT&T declined to discuss the agency's intervention in the deal.

Funny, in a way ! People might be VERY surprised to learn that lots, if not all, routers supplied by ISP's, and maybe others, have backdoors built in them. This is true for the USA, and quite possibly many others too

Guess who sanctioned this, yep your "good" old 3 letter etc agency So the've no room to talk about such fears etc Of course who wants a BD put in ANY of our equipment, whether it's the Chinese or Anyone else